Hello and welcome back to my blog. This post will be about our first maker project ever. This project was about how we build and strengthen the PLP learning team. We had to make things like a user manual, a laptop Memoji that had stickers on it that represented us, a physical representation that was made out of a ton of random objects, and a keynote guided tour that showcased all of the things that we made. 

The user manual: This was a document that we had to make about us. It included our settings, which were: PLP student, swimming, reading, and normal person. It was written in 3rd person which was a style that I have never really tried to write in. This was a really fun to write though, because we got to write about us, but in a different way, and with a bit of added humour that for me was added unintentionally.  

The laptop Memoji: this was a Memoji that we had to create, that had stickers on it. We had To learn how to create a Memoji, how to use keynote, how to add shapes, add colours, and do so much more with keynote. I feel like my laptop memoji really represents me and the things that I like.

My physical representation: To make our physical representations we had to use random materials to make something that represents how we work in a team. For mine, I made a campfire, and the materials that I used were: a plastic bag, a index card, some tinfoil, a paper bag and a bit of tape. I unfortunately didn’t get any photos. I think that a campfire represents how I work in a team because the logs are my team. They are all there, perfectly organized, kind, and respectful. The flames and the smoke are me. I can be loud, overwhelming and obnoxious. But the flames need the logs as fuel, and the rest of my team fuel me and keep me going. 

For the exhibition we had to make a guided tour with our keynote skills. This was basically a slideshow that had buttons that people could press that took them to different slides in the presentation. In this presentation we had to have slides that showed: our Big Life Journal three best works, an explanation of our physical representation (artists statement) our creative media that we made that represents our strengths and stretches during this project and one other thing. For me this was my WordPack image. Because I can not physically put my keynote in this blog post, I have created a video that explains my keynote.

 

The final exhibition! this was one the most fun things to do in this project. We got to give our tables a theme, and out table group theme was mafia. We had black tablecloths, a ton of fake lanterns and candles, and we all wore suits and red rose pins to match our theme. During the exhibition we had parents come up to us and critique our keynotes. I got a ton of helpful feedback from other adults! The only bad thing was that my keynote decided to stop working, but I worked around It. These are some of my group mates, Hannah and Sofia!

This was an extremely fun project to do. I learned a ton of tips and tricks on how to use an iPad, and how to use all of the fun features and apps. 

Thanks for reading!

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